Libraries create a lot of data, but how can we best use it to improve library management and services? Data on library programming can help you decide how, when or what programming to spend your limited staff time and programming budgets on. How can data visualization help explain library services to your funders? How can we help manage patron privacy? What is big data in libraries? LM is highlighting topical Library Science titles from our collection in occasional emails. Here are selected titles on data usage in libraries purchased recently. You can search MeLCat for LM titles and you can also check our New Library Science Collection titles at https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/libraries/libsci. Click on the ANSWER catalog link and use “Library Science Collection” as one of the search terms in the Advanced Search – Notes field and you will pull only the library science collection titles.

REMINDER: Titles are available through interlibrary loan only right now, as our MeLCat delivery is temporarily offline while we prepare to move to a new catalog. You can find the information on interlibrary loan borrowing from the Library of Michigan here - https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/about/libuseguidelines/guideforlibraries/interlibrary-loan-guidelines. The page references state employees, but libraries may also borrow from the collection through interlibrary loan. Please feel free to contact me if you have any issues getting a title.

Data Usage in Libraries titles:

• Big data shocks : an introduction to big data for librarians and information professionals / Andrew Weiss / Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
• Managing data for patron privacy : comprehensive strategies for libraries / Kristin Briney and Becky Yoose / ALA Editions, 2022.
• Data science for librarians / Yunfei Du and Hammad Rauf Khan / Libraries Unlimited, 2020.
• New top technologies every librarian needs to know / edited by Kenneth J. Varnum / ALA Neal Schuman, 2019.
• Using digital analytics for smart assessment / Tabatha Farney / ALA Editions, 2018.
• Metadata for information management and retrieval : understanding metadata and its use / David Haynes / Facet Publishing, 2018.
• Data visualization : a guide to visual storytelling for libraries / edited by Lauren Magnuson / Rowman a& Littlefield, 2016.

The Library Science Collection at LM is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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Karren Reish

Library Grants Coordinator

Library of Michigan

517-241-0021,  www.michigan.gov/lsta

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